Notes, I will add one more. To my ears (disclaimer) NOTHING sounds as good to me as my old Ensoniq synths and sampler. I have much more control (maybe better stated "sounds I can get with no learning curve") over keyboards that I have been using for years than I do with software based synths that I have never seen before.

Again, for my taste, I prefer my external hardware. There is really no time where I will have a moment of "I have to have that one sound from the Prophet 5 that I remember from the early 80s". My stuff has nice organ sounds, strings, clavs, I have a piano.... just no need for synths for me. Rather than write midi tracks to play note events I would play parts and record audio. In fact in a year with BIAB/RB I have yet to record a midi event. 100% audio.

I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.

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